Workstation for high throughput genetic and phenotypic assays

我们要求一个多功能工作站，供卡尔顿大学生物系、化学系和神经科学系的成员使用。这个工作站将允许我们进行大规模的基因、代谢和生理实验。该工作站包括一个液体处理机器人，以可靠地设置数百到数千个反应，一个微孔板读取器，将有助于准确测量代谢，生理和其他特征，以及用于遗传和基因表达研究的热循环器。该基础设施计划进行各种各样的实验，包括新型抗微生物药物（Avis, Smith），植物生物技术（Rowland），微生物进化（Wong）和小鼠神经生物学（Abizaid）。所要求的设备将成为生物系共享的分子生物学设施的一部分，并将随时供大学的研究界使用。该工作站将加速每个主要用户的研究，并将有助于每年在微生物学、生物技术、神经科学和生物化学研究等市场和实用领域培训多达25名学员。

We have requested a multi-purpose workstation that will be used by members of the Departments of Biology, Chemistry, and Neuroscience at Carleton University. This workstation will allow us to conduct large-scale genetic, metabolic, and physiological experiments. The proposed workstation includes a liquid handling robot to reliably set up hundreds to thousands of reactions, a microplate reader that will facilitate accurate measurement of metabolic, physiological, and other traits, and thermocyclers for genetic and gene-expression studies. A wide variety of experiments are planned for this infrastructure, including work on novel anti-microbials (Avis, Smith), plant biotechnology (Rowland), microbial evolution (Wong), and mouse neurobiology (Abizaid). The requested equipment will be part of a shared molecular biology facility housed in the Department of Biology, and will be readily accessible to the University's research community. This workstation will accelerate the research of each of the major users, and will contribute to the training of up to 25 trainees per year in the marketable and practical fields of microbiology, biotechnology, neuroscience, and biochemical research.